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When's Doughnut Day?
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I'm very sorry this didn't work as planned and saddened that people were hurt from the discussions or from the fact that it has been removed. But the problem remains: keeping threads on topic. Just one post with a comment slightly off track in a thread about DRM alternatives and it becomes a thread about bread recipes or squirrels. New people checking in on the thread naturally join in the lastest (squirrel) discussion while those who started the thread are disappointed that no one is discussing the main topic any longer and go away angry. What to do?
I don't think it's to try to stay inhumanly focused on the topic. I think that doing so causes people to become so dreadfully focused that they become dour, easily get their ire up, and lose their sense of humility. That's what it felt like to me, at least, and the only solution for me was to just walk away and stay away. I'm wondering if there isn't a better solution, perhaps in a software change, that would allow someone (maybe anyone, not just the poster or a moderator) to designate a post as off-topic and clearly set it to the side in the thread listing. Not to remove it from the thread but to make it clear to all that the post is a tangent and that the main topic discussion remains alive. Of course, I don't have a clue what I'm talking about. I'm just throwing out an idea I see in my head - such as it is. |
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Grand Sorcerer
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If you started using the internet when News was what you used then it is totally natural that a forum or a mailing list belongs to all that participate. But I know that younger people sometimes take a different view on this. |
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Not scared!
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Grand Sorcerer
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WWHALD
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I never thought a new forum was needed. All I wanted was a way to post to threads that stayed on topic and did not degenerates into the mindless silly dribble of so many off topic threads. And that is still my fundamental concern. But it seems we are in the minority and so our voice does not matter as much as the majority...but for every Ea & tompe who are voicing their concerns here, there are others like me who don't voice their concerns so vociferously, who read the responses, gauge the climate of the forum, and quietly go away. |
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Grand Sorcerer
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I think advertising pays for the forum and maybe generates profits. Otherwise I would have thought that donations would have been asked for and gotten.
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Hi There!
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The Introvert
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News and Commentary Deals, Freebies, and Resources Sony Portable Reader PRS-500/505 Feedback Announcements and weekly email update (that I scan quicker and less interested): Reading Recommendations Workshop ePub LRF Other formats Sony Portable Reader PRS-700 Bookeen Cybook Gen3 I used to be subscribed to Lounge too because sometimes there were good topics but it was very irritating reading through all the silly topic names created every day trying to find anything interesting. Conservatory solved the problem. I unsubscribed from Lounge and subscribed to Conservatory. No more frustration, very convenient and comfortable. Now I have to subscribe to Lounge again...and go through this chore of ignoring silly/stupid/idiotic topics of the forum. As I said, having one or two forums has nothing to do with appearance offensive topics. They would be posted in Lounge or other forums instead of Conservatory. It would not make forum any better/worse in this regard, on the other hand having two forums definitely helped some people not to be aware of silly topics. |
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I like the way that life hacker does there comments. I could see a forum set up like this. and it would work well aslong as you have javascript on that is. http://lifehacker.com/5245881/window...lity#c12686949 |
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